Sugar Signals and the Control of Plant Growth and Development

Overview

Journal J Exp Bot

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2014 Jan 24

PMID 24453229

Citations 227

Authors

Jeroen Lastdrager

Johannes Hanson

Sjef Smeekens

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Abstract

Sugars have a central regulatory function in steering plant growth. This review focuses on information presented in the past 2 years on key players in sugar-mediated plant growth regulation, with emphasis on trehalose 6-phosphate, target of rapamycin kinase, and Snf1-related kinase 1 regulatory systems. The regulation of protein synthesis by sugars is fundamental to plant growth control, and recent advances in our understanding of the regulation of translation by sugars will be discussed.

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